234 TROPICAL WWA) LIFE IN BRITISH GUIANA 



The whole sti-iieture was very eoiiipact and neatly put to- 

 o-ether, the leaf veins ^'iving it a very strange appearanee. 



The two tVesh eggs wei-e j)iire white with little gloss. 

 Their dimensions were 22 x lo..) mm. 



The nest was found on July .5, at the height of the great 

 rainy season. 1 think it i)rol)al)le that thev nest twice a year 

 as several newly vacated nests, apparently of this species, 

 were found during JNlarch. 



OKANCiK-IIKADEJ) M ANAK IX 



Pipra aureola aureola (Linn.) 



These charming little hirds were ahundant, and often 

 seen in the jungle, either in pairs or in company with small 

 flocks of other birds. But their life history as noted in our 

 records was as fragmentary as the brief glimpses we had of 

 them. Then came a series of lucky birds' nesting days and 

 we discovered four nests of the orange-headed manakins. 



The first was close to an animal trail in heavy reedy 

 second growth about a mile from Kalacoon. The nest was 

 in a small, slender-stemmed bush, only three feet from the 

 ground, in the fork of a branch. There were two eggs, and 

 as we did not get a chance to secure the female we disturbed 

 neither eggs nor nest. 



Three days later the bird left as we approached. Back- 

 ing off some distance we squatted and waited for her reap- 

 pearance. In five minutes she returned, settled on the nest, 

 caught sight of us, and flew up scolding harshly. She was 

 imiforiifly dark olive-green, with lighter throat, dark bill, 

 and bright red legs and feet. At this moment, without warn- 

 ing, a full-grown jaguar rushed us, growling, turning aside 

 when about eight feet away, only when we stood up and he 

 perceived that w^e were other than deer or whatever jungle 

 prey he had evidently expected. After the excitement had 

 ])asse(l, one of our number shot a bird from near the nest, 

 only to And that he had killed a helmeted flycatcher hv mis- 



